Not for nothing but I was thinking along the same lines. One report I saw claimed that there were 8000 hotel-nights reserved for the game. This report claims 19300 hotel rooms were reserved. Either way, how the heck does that get you anywhere close to $100 million? Noted Chicago economist Allen Sanderson agrees.
"When was the exact moment you realized Josh Allen had made you look like a fool?"
A cool little story. (Link courtesy of M. Greenspan.)
Quora discussion.
An excellent six-minute compilation of some really great lines. Barely a miss in the bunch.
Interesting. And halfway through the piece I thought to myself this is just like how the very enjoyable movie, Margin Call, unfolded. And lo and behold, the author made the same point. (Except in the movie Kevin Spacey claimed that the nobody would ever do business again with the Morgan Stanley-like firm again. Ha!)
"Be first, be smarter, or cheat" indeed.
"The old saying, 'never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity,' is probably correct here. That does not mean there isn’t a large dose of malice tossed in for good measure."
Dang. Yet another time the historians lied to us.
Potentially good news for the country.
How misleading counting by race is getting to be.
Ten percent of all married people now have a partner of a different race or ethnicity, he finds; likewise, more than 10 percent of babies born in the United States have mixed parentage. Fully 80 percent of those polyglot children have one non-Hispanic white parent. Yet official Census data categorize those children as minorities even when they identify as white.